dattier(_at_)wwa(_dot_)com (David W. Tamkin) writes:
...
formail is supposed to honor partial field names for -X and -x, and for the
forms of -I and -i where you don't specify a new value (where you use -I to
delete the header line or -i to change its name to Old-originalname:). That
facility will not go away.
Now I need to find out whether what I just discovered above about formail -R
will work in future releases. Only Stephen knows that for sure. I wrote to
him but he (unsurprisingly) has yet to respond.
I would expect this feature to remain forever. Two reasons:
a) the source explicitly handles this condition, in a way that indicates
that it was a concious decision of Stephen's part; and
b) it's documented in the HISTORY file:
1994/08/02: v3.04
...
Changes to formail:
- Mistakenly turned X-Loop: fields into Old-X-Loop: when
autoreplying
- Allow wildcard -i when autoreplying
- Renaming short fields to longer fields didn't always work
- Renaming with a wildcard source/destination is possible now
- -rk didn't behave correctly if a Content-Length: field was
present
You're safe.
Philip Guenther